Critics Don’t Like ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ as Much as They Like Making Corny Jokes About Its Title

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, starring Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, and Steve Buscemi as goofy magicians, hits theaters today, and it’s one of the first big mainstream comedies of the year. Wonderstone isn’t faring so well with critics, though, with every other movie reviewer making it a point to mention that the movie is “not incredible.”

Wonderstone earned a 41% and a 44/100 on review aggregators Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, respectively. Critics generally felt that Carell was miscast and that the film was somewhat amusing but not funny enough, with Boston Globe calling it “a lazy, underwritten imitation Will Ferrell movie.” Many critics praised the supporting performances and the third act. The AV Club‘s Nathan Rabin puts it best, writing “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone has its cornball charm, thanks largely to the confident work of old pros Carell, Arkin, and Buscemi, but it’s ultimately a big, gaudy, predictable show, strictly for the rubes and tourists.”

And here’s a collection of every reviewer who made a cheesy joke about how the movie has the word “incredible” in its title, but – get this – it’s not incredible: